In 2023 I did a whole art feature on Paul Chadeisson's Solstice-5, a cautionary film about the dangers of AI set against the backdrop of a bountiful--but barren--alien landscape.
So I was delighted that this week saw the release of a new Solstice-5 episode, this one titled Forgotten Archives, a haunting 11-minute fictional history of humanity's doomed, near-future attempt at mining an entire planet.
It tells roughly the same story as the first--we send machines to mine a planet, and the machines go, uh, overboard--only now with all-new visuals, and an even more pointed message warning against the dangers of unchecked growth and placing our human faith in artificial intelligence.
Anyway I don't want to undermine the video's sombre message here, but...those are some very cool robots and spaceships blowing up in some extremely cool ways.
